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Hurricane Matthew: Food, Water Shortages Threaten Haiti Victims

Remote areas of the island, cut off from supplies, face a humanitarian crisis

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Robbie Whelan

Updated Oct. 9, 2016 8:14 p.m. ET

JÉRÉMIE, Haiti—Nearly a week after Hurricane Matthew slammed into the southwestern tip of Haiti, the scale of destruction is starting to become clear as residents begin to rebuild homes and businesses, and as shortages of food and fresh water threaten to tip some remote areas into humanitarian crisis.